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  • Prysmian Continues Cooperation with OMM

    6 November 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Prysmian Group has signed a two-year framework agreement (FWA) extension with Bristol-based Offshore Marine Management (OMM) for the supply of a range of offshore support services to compliment Prysmian’s installation capacity.

  • ACE Winches Back DolWin Gamma Installation

    23 May 2017

    ACE Winches has mobilised and installed a winch package for use on the jacket installation and float-over of the topside of the DolWin gamma platform, the centrepiece of the 900MW DolWin3 grid connection.

  • Prysmian Commissions SylWin1

    28 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Following news that Siemens handed over the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore grid connection SylWin1 to TenneT yesterday, Prysmian Group announced that it has successfully commissioned the project in a contract with TenneT.  Prysmian secured this project in January 2011 as part of overall contracts awarded to consortium between the Group and Siemens Energy for […]

  • Van Oord’s Dig-It Debuts on Borkum Riffgrund 2

    9 May 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s new tracked remotely operated vehicle (TROV) Dig-It has begun burying the inter-array cables at Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm, marking its first deployment.

  • CIP Invests in Four German North Sea Grid Connections

    27 March 2020
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has bought minority stakes in joint venture companies related to the operation of four grid connection systems in the German sector of the North Sea: BorWin1, BorWin2, HelWin2, and DolWin2.

  • Alstom UK’s Sales Hit GBP1 Bn for Fourth Year

    10 May 2013

    International engineering firm Alstom, which employs around 6,500 people in the UK, has released its final year figures and given details of the number of open vacancies it has. The UK arm of the company, which has operations in power, grid and transport, had sales of just over £1bn in the financial year 2012/13. This […]

  • CIP Targets More Offshore Wind with New Investment Fund

    22 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment

    Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has initiated the fundraising process for its new fund, Copenhagen Infrastructure III K/S, which has already received commitment of DKK 8.8 billion (around 1.2bn EUR).

  • TenneT Benefits from Offshore Wind Industry

    1 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    High-voltage transmission grid operator TenneT continued to provide very high system reliability (99.9999%), benefiting 36 million end-users in the Netherlands and Germany. Financial results in the first half of 2014 were solid. Increases in revenue and EBIT kept pace with the company’s ongoing investments in grid reinforcements and expansions. Importantly, the Dutch Minister of Economic […]

  • Nordic Yards Starts Building DolWin Gamma

    9 October 2014

    The construction works of the DolWin gamma offshore converter platform started today, 9 October, at Nordic Yards in Warnemünde. This was marked by the traditional first steel cut, which took place at the Warnemünde site in the presence of representatives of the contractor Alstom and customer TenneT.  As general contractor, Alstom had placed an order […]

  • Prysmian Invests EUR 40 Mln in Its Cable Plants

    11 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Prysmian Group has announced new investments worth over € 40 million to upgrade production capabilities in its cable plants in Pikkala, Finland and in Arco Felice, Italy. The factories are already the Group’s centres of excellence for high voltage and submarine cable production. These new investments will enable both plants to be fully equipped to […]

  • VBMS Shines as Boskalis’ Offshore Numbers Drop

    17 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    Royal Boskalis Westminster’s Offshore Energy division reported an operating result (EBIT) of EUR 36.1 million for the first six months of 2017, a 66.5% decrease compared with an EBIT of 107.7 million reported during the same period a year earlier.

  • Boskalis to Take Over Bohlen Doyen’s Cable Laying Business

    21 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Boskalis and German SPIE SAG Group have entered an agreement under which Boskalis will acquire the offshore cable installation activities and assets of Bohlen Doyen. 

  • TenneT Issues EUR 1 Bln Green Bond

    29 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    TenneT Holding B.V. yesterday launched and priced its inaugural Green Bond issue, a EUR 1 billion dual tranche (6 and 12 year) bond issue, each sized at EUR 500 million with coupons of 0.875% and 1.750% respectively with the support of five banks, HSBC Bank plc., ING Bank N.V., Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB Bank […]

  • OMM Signs 3-Year FWA with Prysmian

    16 September 2015

    Offshore Marine Management (OMM), has signed a frame work agreement (FWA) with Prysmian Group. The 3 year FWA, which was finalised in July 2015, covers the supply of a range of offshore support services to compliment Prysmian’s installation capability. The FWA has been awarded following a long term relationship for the supply of similar services […]

  • FACTS, HVDC Key for Renewable Energy Integration

    14 February 2014
    Grid Connection

    Alstom participated in the €30 million Ocean Lider project focused on the integration of marine energy sources into the grid via efficient technologies and solutions. Findings confirm that FACTS (Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems) and HVDC (High-Voltage Direct Current) will be key to meeting the technical, economic and environmental requirements of operators. The aim of […]

  • GE and Sembcorp Seal Sofia Transmission System Deal

    29 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The consortium of GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine has been awarded the full contract to supply a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system for RWE’s 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm. Located in the North Sea 195 kilometers off the coast of the North East of England, Sofia will be able […]

  • Hellenic Cables, Jan De Nul Land Wind Cabling Gig Offshore Germany

    4 July 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Hellenic Cables, together with Jan De Nul Group, has been awarded by TenneT the turnkey delivery of three HVAC offshore grid connection cables for the offshore wind farms to be developed in zones N-3.7 and N-3.8 in Germany. These cables will connect the wind farms to the DolWin kappa converter station, from where HVDC cables […]

  • Asso.subsea Picks Correll for Cable Pull-in Operations Offshore Germany

    26 June 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    The Correll Group – Cable Installation & Power Services Division has been awarded a contract from Asso.subsea for the Alternate Current (AC) Submarine cables pull-in operations on both the Gode Wind 3 offshore substation and the High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) DolWin Kappa offshore substation as part of the AC grid connection system. The contract was […]

  • ABB Installs World’s Most Powerful Substation

    10 August 2015
    Grid Connection

    ABB has installed DolWin beta, the world’s most powerful offshore converter station in the North Sea. The 320-kilovolt converter station, housed on an offshore platform, has a 916 megawatts (MW) power transmission capacity, making it the world’s most powerful installation of its kind, enough to power more than 1,000,000 households with clean energy. The offshore […]

  • TenneT Starts Laying DolWin6 Export Cables

    29 June 2021
    Grid Connection

    Offshore cable-laying work to link the DolWin6 grid connection in the North Sea to the German grid has started, TenneT said. The cable-laying work follows an unexploded ordnance removal campaign where a total of twelve UXOs identified along the sea cable route were removed in May 2021. The 39-kilometre export cable section is expected to […]

  • Drydocks to Build BorWin Gamma Converter Platform

    13 October 2014
    Grid Connection

    Drydocks World has signed an agreement with Petrofac to build the BorWin3 high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter platform in the North Sea, named BorWin gamma. When completed, this will provide an essential renewable offshore resource to meet increasing energy demands. Drydocks World has successfully secured the contract for the fabrication, commissioning and load out […]

  • TenneT’s DolWin Kappa Platform Sails Away

    8 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The DolWin kappa offshore platform, part of the DolWin6 grid connection project, has sailed out from the Dragados shipyard in Cádiz, Spain, and is en route to the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. After three years of construction, the platform was loaded on the transport barge Iron Lady on 5 August and headed to […]

  • Installation of DolWin Kappa Offshore Platform Underway

    22 August 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Allseas’ installation vessel Pioneering Spirit has installed the foundation structure for the DolWin kappa offshore platform in the German North Sea, according to TenneT’s latest social media post. After three years of construction, the platform sailed out from the Dragados shipyard in Spain on 5 August and was en route to the Port of Rotterdam […]

  • TenneT Selects Prysmian Cables for DolWin5

    18 June 2019
    Grid Connection

    Prysmian Group has secured a circa EUR 140 million contract by TenneT to provide cables for the DolWin5 grid connection project in the German North Sea. Prysmian will supply, install and commission an HVDC 320 kV XLPE-insulated submarine and land power cable connection, with a 900MW transmission capacity, and the associated fiber optic cable system, including […]

  • First DolWin Kappa Steel Cut

    17 July 2019
    Grid Connection

    Transmission system operator TenneT has cut the first steel for the DolWin kappa offshore converter platform, the centerpiece of the 900MW DolWin6 HVDC connection. Spain’s Dragados Offshore is responsible for the design, supply, construction, transportation and installation of the DolWin kappa platform and the accompanying jacket foundation. Siemens will supply the entire technology for the […]

  • MENCK Hammer Ordered for DolWin Kappa Offshore Converter Platform

    4 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    MENCK, part of Acteon, has signed a contract with Allseas to deliver pile-driving and handling equipment for the installation of TenneT’s DolWin kappa offshore converter platform, the centerpiece of the DolWin6 offshore grid project in the German North Sea. A submersible MHU 3500S hydraulic hammer, capable of driving monopiles and smaller sized piles, will be […]